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No. 572,689. Paten-ned Dec. 8,1896

UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. TRIPP AND YVALTER TRIPP, OF SODUS, NEV YORK.

APPLE-PARER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,689, dated December 8` 1896.

Application filed May 6, 1896. Serial No. 590,472. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY A. TRIPP and WALTER TRIP?, residents of Sod us, in the county of lVayne and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apple-Parels and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to machines for paring and coring apples or the like, and it has for its object to simplify the construction and increase the efficiency of such machines; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is aA section of a detail. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, the lower part of the main frame being broken away and the knife-carriage shown at the left end of its path. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a top plan of a crown-wheel, correspond-v ing to its situation in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a top plan of the same wheel, corresponding to its I i port.

situation in Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7 7 of Fig. 1. Fig. Sis a partial elevation of the knife carriage, corer, and discharger. Fig. 9 is a partial plan.

Numeral 1 denotes the main frame, adapted to be secured to a bench, table, or other sup- At 2in this frame is j ournaled a driving-wheel 3.

4 is a pinion on the apple-holding fork-shaft 5, and 6 is a crown-wheel journaled at 7 in a member 0f the main frame. The pinion is driven by the spur-gear of said wheel 2, and the crown-Wheel by a bevelgear 8, preferably formed integral with the said drivingwheels 3.

9 denotes a sliding frame or knife-carriage that supports the paring and coring devices.. This frame is supported by means of bracketsleeves 10, adapted to slide on a rod 11, fixed to the top of the main frame. The foot Vof the sliding frame fits and slides in a way 12, adjustably secured to a lower bar of frame 1, whereby the sliding frame can be laterally adjusted to aline the corer and fork-shaft. Said way or track is made adjustable horizontally by means of bolts 13 and the slots 14 in lugs 15 of the main frame.

The fork-shaft 5 is supported to rotate in a split sleeve 16, which is made adjustable ver-Y vof the rotating disk 22 are gear-teeth 25, and

26 denotes rack-teeth iixed on an extension of the main frame in the path of said teeth 25 in manner to engage them and rotate the disk whenever the sliding frame 9 carries said disk near the end of its path to the left.

. To the disk 22 is secured an arm a, having an upper portion adapted to bear against a track or bar constituting a part of the main frame. In the lower part of the arm a is a slot receiving a securing-bolt d, having a fastoning-nut c. By this construction the arm can be adjusted in vertical line to compensate for Wear. supporting arm 21, and at the time the latter is forced through the apple it is further braced by the discharger 48. At such time the finger constituting the lower end of the discharging-arm 48 partially encircles the corer, and a thumb or projection Z bears against the corer-supporting arm 21. The discharger is connected to the frame by an 'innerconical pin m, entering a similarlyshaped depression n in the carriage, and by a bolt o and nut q, said bolt passing through an enlarged or oblong opening 1o -in the carriage to permit adjustment of the discharger.

Said arm a braces the corer- To the carriage is also rotatably secured at 26 a knife-supporting bracket having an upwardly-bent arm 27, provided on its exterior with bearings 28 for the axis 29 of a swinging knife-frame 30.

31 is a knife-carrying rod or stock compris- IOO upon pin 34 by a spring 35, adapted to engage any one of the notches 36 in said arm and also a lu g 37 on the lower end of the swinging frame. The spring normally pulls arm 32 upon its pin and the rod 3l against an adjustable stop 32.

The knife-rod 3l is adj ustably held in a slot 38, formed in the bottom of the swinging frame, by a T-shaped bracket 39. The arm 40 of this bracket and an arm 4l embrace and move about a stud 42 on the main frame during the paring operation and thereby effect the requisite rotation of the knife,'and the outside faces or backs of these arms, after their inside faces leave the stud 42, are respectively turned to bear on the main frame on opposite sides of the stud as the knifeframe is carried either to the right or left after paring the apple, the operation being effected by the moving carriage, as will be more fully explained.

As the knife is carried toward the extreme left of its path its supporting-bracket is rotated upwardly about its aXis 26 to a position indicated in Fig. 2 by means of a link or bar 43, pivotally connected to a stud `44 on the arm 27 and to a stud 45, fixed to the disk 22. The rotation of disk 22, which occurs when the carriage is approaching the end of its path to the left, carries the stud 45 upwardly and to the right with the effect to push the bar 43 and the knife-bracket to which said bar is pivoted, and this turns said bracket on its bearing 2G and lifts the knife just after its frame has been swung upon its axis 29 by the action of the arm 4l in the depression 46 of the main frame. 47 denotes an upwardlycurved bearing for the back of said arm, which arm is swung upwardly with the knife and its support. rlhis operation is subsequent to a movement of the knife in line with the fork, and its object is to lift the knife entirely out of the way of the hand of the operator in placing an apple. The same movement, including the rotation of disk 22, withdraws the corer and the pared and cored apple from the fork and swings them up-` wardly past the discharger 48, pendent from the carriage, by which the apple is pushed from the corer. The core is discharged from the fork in any usual or desired manner.

The crown-wheel 6 being rotated, as stated, moves the carriage 9 to effect the various operations by means of the following devices: 47 denotesa lug fixed on said wheel, and 4S is a bearing or socket for the same, iXed on the carriage and situated in the path of lug 47, so that the latter engages it when the carriage is at the left end of its path. By this means the carriage is moved to bring this knife in position to pare the apple which has been placed on the fork and which is being continuously rotated. The stud or lug 47 escapes from the bearing and the carriage rests an instant while the end of the apple is being pared, vbut almost immediately a rack 49, formed on the carriage, is engaged by a gear 50 on the hub of wheel 6, with the effect to renew and continue the movement of the carriage to the right. This movement is continued suficiently far to finish the paring of the apple and carry the knifev beyond it out of the path of the corer as its work is completed, whereupon a stud 5l on the crownwheel engages a slot 52, formed in the carriage, with the effect to reverse the moveA ment of the carriage and move it to the eX- treme left, thereby bringing the stud 47 against bearing 48 to repeat the operation by a continuous rotation of the driving-wheel.

Ve are aware that it is not broadly new to swing a paring-blade above the apple-holding fork, and that a corer has been stayed when at work by a part connected to the frame, and that a knife-stock has been detachably supported in the frame and held thereto by a spring, and we only claim our special construction substantially as herein after pointed out. In a prior arrangement of detachable knife-stock the knife-carrying rod was confined in slots formed in the stock-rotating gear and in the corer-operating rack or gear in manner to prevent its removal for the cleaning or grinding of the knife without also detaching the rod from its supporting-bar and withdrawing said rod downwardly through said slots. By our present improvement it is not necessary to disconnect the rod-supporting bar 32 after disengaging the spring, the latter operation being alone sufficient to free the knife-stock from the machine.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is- 1. In a machine for paring, the combination of the main frame, a movable knife-carriage having a slot, a wheel provided with studs one of which is arranged to bear on a wall of said slot and move the carriage through its path in one direction, said carriage having a socket or bearing arranged with relation to the other wheel-stud to begin the return of the carriage, and a gear on the wheel arranged to engage a rack on the carriage to complete the return, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for paring, the combination of the main frame, a movable knife-carriage having a slot, a wheel providedvwith studs one of which is arranged to bear on a.

wall of said slot and move the carriage through its path in one direction, said carriage having a socket or bearing arranged with relation to the other wheel-stud to begin the return of the carriage, and a gear on the Wheel arranged to engage a rack on thecarriage to complete the return, said rack and gear being arranged to be engaged a little after the last-named stud and bearing become inoperative to provide a momentary rest for the' carriage, substantially as described.

3. In a machine for paring and coring, the combination of a main frame, a movable knife-carriage, a knife, a fork-shaft provided with a fork, devices for moving the knife away from the fork in the line of its shaft,

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5. In a machine for paring and coring, the

l combination of a main frame, a knife-carriage,

a corer supported on said carriage, a forkshaft and fork, said carriage being adjustable to aline the corer with the fork-shaft, substantially as described.

6. In a machine for paring and coring, the combination of a main frame, a knife-carriage,

a corer supported on said carriage, a fork to` hold the article for paring and coring, a forkshaft, and devices for adjusting each end of said shaft to aline it with the corer, said carriage being adjustable to aline the corer with the shaft, substantially as described.

7. In a machine for paring, the combination of a mainframe, a knife-carriage, a swinging knife-frame, a knife-holding stock fixed to a supporting-bar 31 loosely connected to the swinging frame, and a detachable spring to hold the stock engaged therewith, said spring maintaining said connection and the stock and its supporting-bar being together entirely removable from the machine by the detachment of the spring, substantially as described.

8. In a machine for coring, a main frame, a corer, a carriage for the corer, a pivoted corersupporting arm,and an apple-discharging arm fixed to and movable with said carriage and having a projection l adapted to bear on and partially surround and hold the corer-support when the corer is at work, 4substantially as described.

9. In a machine for coring, a main frame, a corer, a carriage for the corer, a pivoted corersupporting arm, and an apple-discharging arm ixed to and movable with said carriage and having a projection Z adapted to bear on and partially surround and hold the corer-sup'- port when the corer is at work, said discharging-arm being adjustable, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY A. TRIPP.

VALTER TRIPP. Vitnesses-z C. K. KNAPP, FRANK T. PERCY. 

